PhD Candidate in Anthropology & History
About
Richard Hoffman Reinhardt is a PhD Candidate in the Interdepartmental Program in Anthropology and History at the University of Michigan. He studies the anthropology and history of Christianity in global contexts, African and African diasporic religions, psychoanalysis, and theories of religion. His dissertation focuses on the history of Capuchin-Franciscan missionaries in the Seventeenth Century in relation to conversion, enslavement, early modern racial assemblages, and categories like idolatry, fetishism, and superstition.
Awards
- 2018-2019 New World Comparative Studies Fellow, John Carter Brown Library (four months)
- 2018-2019 Lurcy Fellow for Study in France
- 2017-2018 Fellowship Program Participant, Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute
- 2017-2018 FLAS Fellow (Portuguese)
- 2017 Summer FLAS Fellow (Portuguese)
- 2014-2015 Fellow in Race, Law & History, University of Michigan
Fields of Study
- Theorizing Religion
- Religious Conversion/Missionization
- Franciscanism
- African and African Diasporic Religions
- Psychoanalysis
